Reported Pause in RAF White Recruiting To Meet Diversity Targets

[tartare]

Originally Posted by Thud105

Comedy is a form of art, and art is subjective. No point explaining jokes, you either found it funny, or you didn't. My point was that the overly woke don't seem to have much of a sense of humour, and often seem to delight in saying "that's not funny" as if only their opinion counts, when what they should say (if they feel they must comment) is "I don't think that's funny."

Indeed.
Perilously politically correct Policy Wonk at the place I work just did not smile.
In photos, discussions, any workplace interaction.
Was a blocker in all senses of productive output.
Thankfully she has now left... and taken her pronouns and the rest of her woke bollocks with her.

[Bob Viking]

Langleybaston

I take your point. However, the posts to which I referred felt like virtue signalling to me which is a practice I find to be as tiresome as the discrimination it purports to address.

BV

[vascodegama]

I am with Bob on this one -the range of abilities across the sexes was just as varied.

[langleybaston]

Originally Posted by Bob Viking

I take your point. However, the posts to which I referred felt like virtue signalling to me which is a practice I find to be as tiresome as the discrimination it purports to address.

BV

Fair enough. I suspect that my sample was smaller than yours. All I do know is that, when I joined, all S Met Os were male, and many were stale.
Fast forward to the 17 years when I was line manager of about a dozen [other numbers are available] S Met Os, the few female S Met Os and senior forecasters were all up among the star performers.
We speak as we find I hope. We can certainly agree about virtue signalling, an abomination.

[oldmansquipper]

Originally Posted by langleybaston

Fair enough. I suspect that my sample was smaller than yours. All I do know is that, when I joined, all S Met Os were male, and many were stale.
Fast forward to the 17 years when I was line manager of about a dozen [other numbers are available] S Met Os, the few female S Met Os and senior forecasters were all up among the star performers.
We speak as we find I hope. We can certainly agree about virtue signalling, an abomination.

I do indeed (speak as I find). whist I am still allowed to have opinions of my own.

Virtue signalling? - Is that one of the newer phrases, like ‘extended reality’ and ‘embracing presentism?’ Whatever…I don’t like it either..😉

[ORAC]

Thought this thread was worth linking here. By a US Army colonel, field artillery.

https://twitter.com/uncleredleg/stat...8FLFn3w08Nv0Dg

Had some family in town this weekend. As some may know, I have a son at West Point. Because some of my family tune into various news sources, one of them asked me. “So what does your boy think of all that woke crap being taught at our service academies?” My answer in a 🧵1/.

[Big Pistons Forever]

The Russian army, I would suggest, is the very opposite of woke. It is also demonstrably ineffective and incompetent.
Both are a result of an organization that doesn’t value its soldiers, sailors and, airmen and women. The behaviours that fosters unit cohesion and therefore battlefield effectiveness, that are so eloquently described in the twitter message string above, are why the US military is such a powerful force.

I think the whole “ the military is in danger from woke-ness” has more to do with right wing blow hards like Tucker Carlson chasing TV ratings, rather than an actual problem.

Tucker as I recall made a big point about how the Russian army was so great because it wasn’t woke. Funny how that line didn’t wear well.

[Asturias56]

"The Russian army, I would suggest, is the very opposite of woke. "

Understatement of the year. Trouble is they treat so many of the recruits like dirt and they treat civilians and the opposition even worse

And then wonder why they are "The Boys in Zinc"